(CROSSVILLE, TN) The United States Chess Federation is pleased to announce that the following players have qualified to participate in the 2012 World Youth Chess Championships to be held in Maribor, Slovenia from November 7 – 19. Players qualify by rating, by earning a Personal Right winning the Gold Medal at the previous World Youth (PR), and by achieving top spots at designated national scholastic events (NA/All-Girls). Additional players will qualify as winners of the upcoming 2012 US Cadet Championship, the 2012 Denker Tournament of High School Champions, and the 2012 Barber Tournament of K-8 Champions. Complete USCF invitation regulations are located at http://main.uschess.org/content/view/7865/131/.

The top players by rating in each age category are considered the official representatives by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, but all players compete in the event as part of the US delegation. Details concerning the 2012 World Youth tournament may be found at the organizers website: http://www.wycc2012.com/. All players should contact Jerry Nash by Friday, July 20th at jnash@uschess.org for additional information regarding costs and registration for the 2012 World Youth.

Congratulations to all the players who qualified for the 2012 World Youth!

Boys Under 8

Christopher Shen

OH

1897

Tan Nguyen

VA

1881

NA

Jason Metpally

TX

1736

Ben Rood

CA

1733

Ethan Tang

AZ

1686

Joaquin Perkins

CA

1654

Aydin Turgut

IL

1632

Erik Brodsky

NY

1627

Harry Wang

TX

1625

Taran Idnani

NJ

1623

Daniel Levkov

NY

1621

Atreya Vaidya

TX

1613

Rohan Suryawanshi

CT

1599

Stefan Musikic

IL

1595

Henry Hawthorn

TX

1582

Eric Wang

TX

1573

Kevin Chor

AZ

1568

Corwin Cheung

NY

1558

Kelvin Jiang

CA

1547

Roshan Idnani

NJ

1531

David Zhurbinsky

NJ

1536

Balaji Daggupati

CA

1531

Milind Maiti

CA

1522

Aryaman Bansal

TX

1521

Pieter Heesters

MD

1516

Cole Frutos

TX

1509

Maxwell Feng

GA

1501

Anish Vivekananthan

TX

1501

Anthony He

WA

1283

NA

Logan Wu

TN

1261

NA

Boys Under 10

Praveen Balakrishnan

NJ

2105

Awonder Liang

WI

2104

PR

Rayan Taghizadeh

CA

2006

Aravind Kumar

NJ

2002

David Peng

IL

1995

Andrew Titus

MN

1981

Luke Xie

OH

1911

Andrew Zheng

MD

1908

Marcus Miyasaka

NY

1902

Boys Under 12

Jeffery Xiong

TX

2394

Samuel Sevian

CA

2360

Jonathan Chiang

TX

2228

Tommy He

TX

2205

Cameron Wheeler

CA

2204

Roland Feng

WA

2185

Albert Lu

CA

2183

Ruifeng Li

TX

2181

PR

Vignesh Panchanatham

CA

2138

Alexander Crump

NY

2128

Udit Iyengar

CA

2115

Joshua Sheng

CA

2112

John Ludwig

FL

2094

Craig Hilby

CA

2093

Bovey Liu

TX

2073

Kadhir Pillai

NY

2072

Ethan Li

AZ

2070

Siddharth Banik

CA

2065

Zhaozhi Li

IL

2064

Tanuj Vasudeva

CA

2062

Kevin Moy

CA

2056

Nicolas Checa

NY

2052

Amir Moazami

NY

2011

NA

Boys Under 14

Kayden Troff

UT

2395

Christopher Gu

RI

2369

Luke Harmon-Velloti

ID

2349

James Black

NY

2322

NA

Justus Williams

NY

2318

Christopher Wu

NJ

2322

NA

Joshua Colas

NY

2320

Mika Brattain

MA

2257

Kapil Chandran

CT

2226

Andrew Tang

MN

2208

Safal Bora

MI

2205

Boys Under 16

Darwin Yang

TX

2562

Aleksandr Ostrovskiy

NY

2442

Michael Bodek

NY

2407

Arthur Shen

NJ

2381

Yian Liou

CA

2379

Atulya Shetty

MI

2379

David Adelberg

AZ

2371

Michael Brown

CA

2351

Kevin Wang

MD

2334

Sean Vibbert

IN

2315

Varun Krishnan

CA

2307

David Hua

NJ

2305

Boys Under 18

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Ray Robson

FL

2692

Daniel Naroditsky

CA

2552

Robert Perez

FL

2519

Parker Zhao

NY

2491

William Fisher

NY

2436

Girls Under 8

Maggie Ni

TX

1609

All-Girls

Agnes William

CA

1422

Jessica Rattray

NY

1318

Anh Nguyen

TX

1317

Zhiyi Wang

CA

1179

Sadie Edelman

CT

1174

Sara Lin

TX

1137

Carol Chen

NY

1133

Aasa Dommalapati

VA

1120

Iris Zhou

MO

1104

Girls Under 10

Annie Wang

CA

1938

Akshita Gorti

VA

1831

Jennifer Yu

VA

1802

Emily Nguyen

TX

1761

Carissa Yip

MA

1683

Joanna Liu

CA

1673

Alara Balasaygun

PA

1618

Emily Hu

OH

1567

Ramitha Ravishankar

NJ

1561

All-Girls

Meghana Bhanuprasad

OH

1520

Naomi Bashkansky

WA

1517

Camille Kao

TX

1510

Girls Under 12

Maggie Feng

OH

2012

Rachel Ulrich

WI

1838

Devina Devagharan

TX

1827

Anupama Rajendra

WI

1822

All-Girls

Clarissa Abella

TX

1805

Ashritha Eswaran

CA

1786

All-Girls

Priya Trakru

TX

1782

Queena Deng

CA

1725

Brittany Nguyen

TX

1723

Samritha Palakollu

NJ

1714

Katherine Davis

NY

1706

Sadia Qureshi

TX

1706

Girls Under 14

Simone Liao

CA

2163

Apurva Virkud

MI

2068

Alice Dong

NJ

2063

Kimberly Ding

NJ

2046

Rachel Gologorsky

FL

2041

Margaret Hua

MO

2010

Maryia Oreshko

NJ

1988

Agata Bykovtsev

CA

1981

Florizelle Songco

NY

1836

Joie Wang

VA

1807

All-Girls

Kristen Sarna

TX

1806

Annie Zhao

TX

1805

Stephanie Shao

CA

1801

Girls Under 16

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Sarah Chiang

TX

2233

Megan Lee

WA

2123

Epiphany Peters

MI

2088

Jessica Regam

PA

2076

Jasmine Chen

NY

2013

Michelle Chen

MA

2005

Eve Zhurbinskiy

NJ

1993

Becca Lampman

WA

1961

Lilia Poteat

NY

1958

All-Girls

Saisree Ravi

MN

1909

Girls Under 18

Alena Kats

NY

2244

Anna Matlin

NJ

2105

Darrian Robinson

NY

2080

Emily Tallo

IN

2057

Rochelle Ballantyne

NY

2008

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